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now, the south korean defense ministry has reacted to this, maintaining the line that any military provocation would not be just. it would be illegal and there would be a thorough and sterner response from the south korean military from any such action. if you read the last line of the statement from the supreme commander, there is perhaps some light in terms of talks. the south koreans have said no fault -- so far as north korea has rejected the request for talks. they said if they truly want dialogue and negotiations, they should apologize for all hostile acts. potentially maybe in a few day'' time we may see talks, particularly about the future of the apparently closed industrial complex were 200 south korean workers remain. to go south korea says they will inject more than 15 billion into the economy. says it willorea inject more than 15 billion into the economy. the money will be used to create jobs, build the stagnant real estate market and cover a tax revenue shortfall. pakistan's former president will not be allowed to run for the national assembly in upcoming elections. he had been cl
now, the south korean defense ministry has reacted to this, maintaining the line that any military provocation would not be just. it would be illegal and there would be a thorough and sterner response from the south korean military from any such action. if you read the last line of the statement from the supreme commander, there is perhaps some light in terms of talks. the south koreans have said no fault -- so far as north korea has rejected the request for talks. they said if they truly want...
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across the chinese defense concerns i'm joined by and you'll group in washington he is a professor of strategy and globalization at the university of maryland and in c. ard also in washington we have matthew venza he is an associate editor of the china channel at the atlantic and in boston we cross to john walsh he is a contributor to counterpunch and antiwar dot com as well as a founding member of come home america right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want john if i go to you first in boston do you think that the chinese feel like this is a policy of containment we had containment during the cold war of the soviet union we have containment of iran now so china's next well i think there's little doubt about that because the united states secretary john kerry's secretary of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops. well down the stree
across the chinese defense concerns i'm joined by and you'll group in washington he is a professor of strategy and globalization at the university of maryland and in c. ard also in washington we have matthew venza he is an associate editor of the china channel at the atlantic and in boston we cross to john walsh he is a contributor to counterpunch and antiwar dot com as well as a founding member of come home america right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime...
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lawmakers according to him to be deprived of his right to a defense. after ten months being holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy the world's top. tells r.t. why the u.k. is spending millions on watching his every move. bahrain authorities start from opposition attempts to disrupt a controversial formula one racing me down to rallies and clashes with police. and a half of one ton of detainees and now one hunger strike some going to the death to escape detention. so i welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. the surviving suspect in last week's terror bombings in boston is reportedly conscious and.
lawmakers according to him to be deprived of his right to a defense. after ten months being holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy the world's top. tells r.t. why the u.k. is spending millions on watching his every move. bahrain authorities start from opposition attempts to disrupt a controversial formula one racing me down to rallies and clashes with police. and a half of one ton of detainees and now one hunger strike some going to the death to escape detention. so i welcome you watching r.t....
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across the chinese defense concerns i'm joined by neil gupta in washington he is a professor of strategy and globalization at the university of maryland and in c. ard also in washington we have matthew venza he is an associate editor of the china channel at the atlantic and in boston we cross to john walsh he is a contributor to counterpunch and antiwar dot com as well as a founding member of come home america right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want john if i go to you first in boston do you think that the chinese feel like this is a policy of containment we had containment during the cold war of the soviet union we have containment of iran now so china's next well i think there's little doubt about that because the united states secretary john kerry secretary of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of the vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops. well down the street here th
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lawmakers according to him to be deprived of his right to a defense. after ten months being holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy the world's top whistleblower julian assange tells the u.k. is spending millions on watching his every move. to disrupt a controversial formula one race all of it anti-government rallies the clashes with police. the guantanamo bay detainees and now one hunger strike some going to the edge of death to escape detention limbo. it's a pleasure to have you with us here today. live in moscow with your world wide. the surviving suspect.
lawmakers according to him to be deprived of his right to a defense. after ten months being holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy the world's top whistleblower julian assange tells the u.k. is spending millions on watching his every move. to disrupt a controversial formula one race all of it anti-government rallies the clashes with police. the guantanamo bay detainees and now one hunger strike some going to the edge of death to escape detention limbo. it's a pleasure to have you with us here...
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yes strong military ally of japan and south korea and clearly has defense treaty with both countries but you know i mean i come from india and i know about british rule and british occupation of india and essentially the industrial revolution in britain in the nineteenth century was fueled from india you know so occupiers in the past have always have had a history of actually emasculating the countries that occupied look at how japan and south korea have performed with the you know under the alliance with the us they have tried to call it an occupation is complete nonsense matt you want to jump in there because they were not going to matter for instance going to mass in a mad. ok fine fine what i what i want to say is this i think both of you both of the fellow guests are interpreting that pivot is a much too grandly the pivot to asia really isn't all that much i mean it's something it's just a simple term to describe something that's been happening over the last decades anyway and we also cannot forget the political component of the of the pivot to asia which is this president obama
yes strong military ally of japan and south korea and clearly has defense treaty with both countries but you know i mean i come from india and i know about british rule and british occupation of india and essentially the industrial revolution in britain in the nineteenth century was fueled from india you know so occupiers in the past have always have had a history of actually emasculating the countries that occupied look at how japan and south korea have performed with the you know under the...
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yes strong military ally of japan and south korea and clearly has defense treaty with both countries but you know i mean i come from india and i know about british rule and british occupation of india and essentially the industrial revolution in britain in the nineteenth century was fueled from india you know so occupiers in the past have always have had a history of actually emasculating the countries that occupied look at how japan and south korea have performed with the you know with under the alliance with the us they have tried to call it an occupation is complete nonsense matt you want to jump in there because they were not going to matter for instance going to mass they mad. ok fine fine what i what i want to say is this i think both of you both of the fellow guests are interpreting the pivot is a much too grandly the pivot to asia really isn't all that much i mean it's something it's just a simple term to describe something that's been happening over the last decades anyway and we also cannot forget the political component of the of the pivot to asia which is this president o
yes strong military ally of japan and south korea and clearly has defense treaty with both countries but you know i mean i come from india and i know about british rule and british occupation of india and essentially the industrial revolution in britain in the nineteenth century was fueled from india you know so occupiers in the past have always have had a history of actually emasculating the countries that occupied look at how japan and south korea have performed with the you know with under...
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repurposing those lands from national defense to environmental defense. and i believe it is probably the most accessful base conversion in the united states. if you haven't been to the presidio, i think you should try and make that. if you're from out of town, it's a spectacular transition there. so, these golden gate national parks that i happen to be the superintendent of has now become after 40 years the second most visited national park in our country. we get 14 million people a year that come to our parks. it has spectacular coastline, includes muir wood, alcatraz, we get to tell the stories, stories about essentially what you and your predecessors did this this area. our headquarters, fort mason, was the fisherman's wharf area was the port of embarkation for the wars in the pacific. just this week we brought in a world war ii 16-inch bottle ship gun to the marine head lands to put it up at battery townsly which would have been the pinnacle of coastal artillery in world war ii. so, we now have a canon or artillery collection that spans in our park th
repurposing those lands from national defense to environmental defense. and i believe it is probably the most accessful base conversion in the united states. if you haven't been to the presidio, i think you should try and make that. if you're from out of town, it's a spectacular transition there. so, these golden gate national parks that i happen to be the superintendent of has now become after 40 years the second most visited national park in our country. we get 14 million people a year that...
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department of defense. said we've reviewed their cases they're not a threat to the us and we don't want to keep them but they sitting one time oh because of their citizenship and most are from yemen and our argument is we don't trust the unity government to be responsible for but that's the same government we said the unity government gives us permission to conduct drone strikes and kill people so on one hand we trust the human a government to let us kill people but we don't trust the human a government to take their own citizens back so basically the administration seems to have no real interest in shutting this down as you just said that we've authorized millions of dollars to expand it and keep it in place what are we supposed to do to help these prisoners who are killing themselves right now to get their message across it's unfortunate that it takes those kind of drastic steps to get people to pay attention when you spend a decade of your life in confinement because your citizenship i've got a petition
department of defense. said we've reviewed their cases they're not a threat to the us and we don't want to keep them but they sitting one time oh because of their citizenship and most are from yemen and our argument is we don't trust the unity government to be responsible for but that's the same government we said the unity government gives us permission to conduct drone strikes and kill people so on one hand we trust the human a government to let us kill people but we don't trust the human a...
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can afford the keystone pipeline them lashoff climate scientists with the natural natural resources defense council in new york and brad johnson campaign manager with the forecast the facts he's in san francisco thank you all for joining me brad i want to start with you i don't you know want to blame one party to me neither party is doing as much as they including the president is doing as much as they need to on climate change but how trouble is it to you brad that wealthy conservative climate change deniers like the koch's are moving into newspapers medium that's already being used to funnel doubt regarding climate change and what will they do with these do you think. well as you pointed out we in many ways arnie's have seen what that looks like really the news corp empire throughput murdoch when fox news with the new york post and one of the recent hurdy probably most of that u.k. climate change to now and in the news was from papers there so if you had it he's so far as we can tell he's primarily doing that for political and economic power but if you took id you political ideologues lik
can afford the keystone pipeline them lashoff climate scientists with the natural natural resources defense council in new york and brad johnson campaign manager with the forecast the facts he's in san francisco thank you all for joining me brad i want to start with you i don't you know want to blame one party to me neither party is doing as much as they including the president is doing as much as they need to on climate change but how trouble is it to you brad that wealthy conservative climate...
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whether it's missile defense, on dome or rocket defense, the different weapons systems that we are assisting them with, our military to military relationship, i'm going to be in israel in a few days. our interests are very clear and common and so i would answer your question, that way i think the israelis know that and we know that. >> thank you, mr. chairman. there are a lot of red lines out here and i'm just saying, this when we issue these red lines, the judgment call is that if there's a problem, we're going to act and obviously we have to do that diplomacy first but in reality we need to have the military capability to sustain some sort of operation if we start it. >> we have the military capability and we have the ability to provide the president what's required to protect the interests of this country and our allies. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> ms. granger. >> thank you. i have two questions and the first one is to general dempsey. we're talking about relationships. would you bring us up to date on the state of our relationship, military to military, with egypt and how important is
whether it's missile defense, on dome or rocket defense, the different weapons systems that we are assisting them with, our military to military relationship, i'm going to be in israel in a few days. our interests are very clear and common and so i would answer your question, that way i think the israelis know that and we know that. >> thank you, mr. chairman. there are a lot of red lines out here and i'm just saying, this when we issue these red lines, the judgment call is that if...
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the minister of defense decentralized decision making for captains and below. these are the steps that i believe have to be taken. i'm mindful of the challenges we had in the u.s. military when i came in as a platoon commander in the 1970's and we had significant attrition in the united states marine corps and in the united states army at that time. a big part of that was leadership. as leaders were held accountable and addressed that problem, the problem got better. this idea of leadership development is a two, three, five-year process but we're moving in that direction. -- the right direction. afghan leadership are being held accountable by the afghan chain of command. when they fail to perform they're being dismissed and i think that's a positive sign. >> and that effort will really depend on the credibility and confidence and the integrity of the afghan army, won't it? >> over time effective military action is important. >> i'm very concerned and -- with the contracts involving taxpayer dollars of the united states that may go to -- in effect benefit our en
the minister of defense decentralized decision making for captains and below. these are the steps that i believe have to be taken. i'm mindful of the challenges we had in the u.s. military when i came in as a platoon commander in the 1970's and we had significant attrition in the united states marine corps and in the united states army at that time. a big part of that was leadership. as leaders were held accountable and addressed that problem, the problem got better. this idea of leadership...
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hunger strike and dr steven did not ever tied on a medical cool and a former senior adviser to the defense department says it might not be long before the process. typically people get very sick after about fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks but all the world medical associations are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is that it in fact disrupts what is most important which is establishing a constructive relationship were poorer with the hunger strikers and being able to discuss the terms of their protest the this is a they if they have it also. really overrides their autonomy which is very important in medicine we except that is one of our ethical principles so that by and large most organizations across the world feel that it is not acceptable and in this particular case what it does not help resolve their grievances and help resolve the conflict that we're having between the detainees and the authorities. i'm to st
hunger strike and dr steven did not ever tied on a medical cool and a former senior adviser to the defense department says it might not be long before the process. typically people get very sick after about fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks but all the world medical associations are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is...
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about nuclear weapons is that and you know despite the expense many ways they offer a cheap form of defense compared with conventional g. forces now north korea hasn't got the in the economic wherewithal to come anywhere near the americans in terms of you know conventional arms and so nuclear weapons and they don't really need very much then you need them to be effective all they need is to have been there to do you agree that the americans think that they could retaliate if if if so clapped so it's quite close first on the korean point of view and that would go up to three of us south korea and japan is activity like warships and just interceptor missiles are all being pointed at korea is that all going to temporary do you believe. it's all going to to ten to ten point north korea. no i mean yes i mean not that i think the the actual crisis is now sort of winding down their merican follow ups the ante with this current range of august military exercises in order to stop a new south korean government from opening up in gauging the north. africa and he promised in the intellectual campaign s
about nuclear weapons is that and you know despite the expense many ways they offer a cheap form of defense compared with conventional g. forces now north korea hasn't got the in the economic wherewithal to come anywhere near the americans in terms of you know conventional arms and so nuclear weapons and they don't really need very much then you need them to be effective all they need is to have been there to do you agree that the americans think that they could retaliate if if if so clapped so...
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department of defense of said we've reviewed their cases they're not a threat to the u.s. and we don't want to keep them but they sitting one time oh because of their citizenship and most are from yemen and our argument is we don't trust the unity government to be responsible for but that's the same government we said the unity government gives us permission to conduct drone strikes and kill people so on one hand we trust the mini government to let us kill people but we don't trust the human a government to take their own citizens back so. basically the administration seems to have no real interest in shutting this down as you just said that we've authorized millions of dollars to expand it and keep it in place what we supposed to do to help these prisoners who are killing themselves right now to get their message across it's unfortunate that it takes those kind of drastic steps to get people to pay attention when you spend a decade of your life in confinement because your citizenship i've got a petition coming out on change dot org i'm working with them and with the witne
department of defense of said we've reviewed their cases they're not a threat to the u.s. and we don't want to keep them but they sitting one time oh because of their citizenship and most are from yemen and our argument is we don't trust the unity government to be responsible for but that's the same government we said the unity government gives us permission to conduct drone strikes and kill people so on one hand we trust the mini government to let us kill people but we don't trust the human a...
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europe, and that takes you to what we call defensive growth, defensive growth, as you say, is health care, is tapels, parts of the media, parts of the technology space, as well, clearly defensive growth. and then the other part of the bar bell, we want to take advantage of some of those attractive valuations in equities and in europe. we would rather go into financials selectively and look at those insurance companies, those banks, as well, which is perhaps have sold off more in the market than the recent pullback and look at all of those companies which have improving or strong capital positions. and you end up looking at some of the german insurers and the swiss bank. they look pretty strong for us. >> jonathan, thanks very much for that. . >>> today is also worldwide -- in china, "worldwide exchange" in china day. i'm in hong kong because i've just spent the weekend at the china entrepreneur's club annual meeting of green companies in china. i've just come back from there and the china entrepreneur's club is a group 50, 51 of the leading ceos of the private companies. around $300
europe, and that takes you to what we call defensive growth, defensive growth, as you say, is health care, is tapels, parts of the media, parts of the technology space, as well, clearly defensive growth. and then the other part of the bar bell, we want to take advantage of some of those attractive valuations in equities and in europe. we would rather go into financials selectively and look at those insurance companies, those banks, as well, which is perhaps have sold off more in the market than...
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defense secretary robert gates he said that if this trend does continue to be alliance it could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevant so there's the question of whether the actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and there are signals coming from the u.s. that they are not keen on continuing the kind of partnership with this sort of inequality and also looking at the u.s. his own budget cost as well as its shift in priority especially after we've heard that pivot to asia so they have their own concerns so they're questioning the kind of the new line of the kind of partnership that they have especially with european countries moving forward they're also facing some lack of enthusiasm from european members of just germany for instance was very eager to contribute to any military operation so again under the nato secretary general has come out saying that the capability of nato will be impacted and there is a question of critics on the actual relevance of the alliance. there's not much enthusiasm from its members to contribu
defense secretary robert gates he said that if this trend does continue to be alliance it could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevant so there's the question of whether the actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and there are signals coming from the u.s. that they are not keen on continuing the kind of partnership with this sort of inequality and also looking at the u.s. his own budget cost as well as its shift in priority...
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on defense is now only being achieved by three nato members and. the reports now from brussels the rift between alliance members is growing. the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and warned its partners against the danger of defense spending cuts as we've already seen especially from its european partners this opinion was also echoed by go way u.s. defense secretary leon panetta he said that if this trend does continue that the alliance could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevance so there's the question of whether it will actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and opinion also . echoed by the former u.s. defense secretary robert gates the problem that nato is facing when it comes to budget is no small matter if we just look back to more than a decade ago it. had a goal of having sixty thousand troops for instance available for battle in the so-called in so-called core however today we see that these battle groups range from about fifteen hundred to tw
on defense is now only being achieved by three nato members and. the reports now from brussels the rift between alliance members is growing. the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and warned its partners against the danger of defense spending cuts as we've already seen especially from its european partners this opinion was also echoed by go way u.s. defense secretary leon panetta he said that if this trend does continue that the alliance could be in danger of...
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the sounds that long of a promising european defense spending which leaves washington picking up the majority of the top four nato outs russians a crisis of unity. loss of u.s. officials admits the glory hunger strike of gone tunnel bay now includes overhaul of the detainees that the wars have insisted the figure is. all along. international news life this is our see with me your leisure paula thanks for joining us according to investigators the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombings says it's america's wars in iraq and afghanistan that led him and his brother to carry out the worst u.s. based attack since nine eleven after questioning nineteen year old john hartson knives police believe the bombers were acting on their own initiative will cling to any foreign terrorist group all season as the citric and i reports now from boston . as the nineteen year old boston bombing suspect joe hart's are naiads condition improves from serious to fair he's beginning to reveal information to investigators from what we're hearing on the ground according to officials certain has said tha
the sounds that long of a promising european defense spending which leaves washington picking up the majority of the top four nato outs russians a crisis of unity. loss of u.s. officials admits the glory hunger strike of gone tunnel bay now includes overhaul of the detainees that the wars have insisted the figure is. all along. international news life this is our see with me your leisure paula thanks for joining us according to investigators the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombings...
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on defense. the organization was created to counter the soviet union with soviet union long gone it has to keep easy over the years nato has gone from being a defense organization to becoming an offensive force with a missions that go far beyond north america and europe they refer to those ambitions as out of area operations which have included of ghana's stand in libya now part of nato the very powerful part which includes the u.s. the u.k. and france pretty much see those out of area operations as the future of the organization but the zest and enthusiasm to go global doesn't sync well with all twenty eight members of the alliance who know they will have to foot the bill the lack of consensus showed when germany by far europe's strongest nation refused to provide resources for nato bombings two years ago back then nato has gone beyond its un mandate which was to protect civilians it has effectively created a power vacuum in which all kinds of extremists have flourished since then not to mention
on defense. the organization was created to counter the soviet union with soviet union long gone it has to keep easy over the years nato has gone from being a defense organization to becoming an offensive force with a missions that go far beyond north america and europe they refer to those ambitions as out of area operations which have included of ghana's stand in libya now part of nato the very powerful part which includes the u.s. the u.k. and france pretty much see those out of area...
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they are reallocating more to asia meanwhile they have decreased spending more than 500% and china's defense budget is now the second largest in the u.s. >>> three teenage boys accused of sexually assaulting a teenage student who later committed suicide will be in court. the boys are accused of sexually assaulting audrie pott while she was drunk and passed out at a party last year. during a news conference, the boys wrote crude messages on her daughter's body after the attack then e-mailed and texted photos. audrie pott committed suicide eight days later and she said she had been bullied for years. >> i she said i can't do this, i have been here for two years and i can't do it anymore. >> reporter: the parents want to sue the boys and they want them to be tried as adult. the attorneys representing the boys say the information is inaccurate. later today the judge will decide whether they will stay in custody or be released to their parents. >>> investigators say a man was allowed inside an apartment on 10th street by claiming he was a plumber and police say he molested the girl inside the apa
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on defense is not only being achieved by three nato members. as late as from brussels. we're here in front of the nato headquarters where the foreign ministers had just met to discuss a whole range of issues from afghanistan post twenty fourteen to north korea nuclear situation to syria and a lot of other issues the weather before this actual foreign ministers meeting the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and he warned its partners against the danger of more defense spending cuts as we've already seen especially from its european partners so this opinion was also echoed by the outgo a u.s. defense secretary leon panetta he said that if this trend does continue that the alliance could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevance so there's the question of whether or not it will actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and opinion also . echoed by the former u.s. defense secretary robert gates the problem that nato is facing when it comes to budget is no small matter if we just look
on defense is not only being achieved by three nato members. as late as from brussels. we're here in front of the nato headquarters where the foreign ministers had just met to discuss a whole range of issues from afghanistan post twenty fourteen to north korea nuclear situation to syria and a lot of other issues the weather before this actual foreign ministers meeting the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and he warned its partners against the danger of more...
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ultimately washington left to bear the burden of the defense finances now crisis hit nato states have already chopped more than forty five below. dollars from the treasury that's about the equivalent of germany's entire military budget and the number of european troops in the u.s. led bloc is also plummeted from two point five million in two thousand down to one point eight six million while the u.s. was trimming its own military costs share of the budget is still risen to seventy five percent of the total. of reports from brussels concerns over nato's viability continue to grow. the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and warned its partners against the danger of more defense spending cuts as we've already seen especially from its european partners this opinion was also echoed by the former u.s. defense secretary robert gates he said that if this trend does continue that the alliance could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevance so there's the question of whether nato will actually still be relevant given the decreas
ultimately washington left to bear the burden of the defense finances now crisis hit nato states have already chopped more than forty five below. dollars from the treasury that's about the equivalent of germany's entire military budget and the number of european troops in the u.s. led bloc is also plummeted from two point five million in two thousand down to one point eight six million while the u.s. was trimming its own military costs share of the budget is still risen to seventy five percent...
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really interesting defensive stocks really led this rally. what do you think if we're coming down now? >> well, you know, leadership has been in a lot of different areas, and not just year-to-date but over the last year-and-a-half. david: forgive me, guys, i have got to break in here. we have american express express earnings. dennis, what are the numbers? >> yes the numbers beat the street on earnings but fall below revenue. street wanted 8.03 billion. earnings per share, american express, 1.15 a share. street was thinking $1.12. that is a beat. quarterlyly dividend for amex raised 15%. the company will spend $3.2 billion extra this year on stock buybacks before year-end and another one billion dollars in the first quarter of 2014. stock buybacks support a stock price. can't tell, looks like amex might head down. wall street hate as miss even though earnings beat. lori: todd horowitz, earnings season already weaker still because the bar has been lower, right on a lot of these companies? do you think earnings overall will give the bulls any k
really interesting defensive stocks really led this rally. what do you think if we're coming down now? >> well, you know, leadership has been in a lot of different areas, and not just year-to-date but over the last year-and-a-half. david: forgive me, guys, i have got to break in here. we have american express express earnings. dennis, what are the numbers? >> yes the numbers beat the street on earnings but fall below revenue. street wanted 8.03 billion. earnings per share, american...
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but for the left the defensive crouch at least makes sense. liberalism's main purpose today is to defend itself past gains -- its past gains from conservative reform. but megativity on the right, to my mind, makes no sense at all. the left has created this false narrative that liberals are for things, and conservatives are against things. when we concede this narrative even just implicitly, we concede the debate before that debate even begins. and yet too many of us, elected conservatives especially, do it anyway. we take the bait. a liberal proposes an idea, we explain why it won't work, and we think that we've won the debate at that moment. but even if we do, we reinforce that false narrative that i'm talking about. winning battles while we're losing the war at every step. this must be frustrating to the scholars of the heritage foundation who work every day producing new ideas, ideas about what conservatives can be for. but it should be even more frustrating to the conservatives around the country that we, as elected conservatives, were in
but for the left the defensive crouch at least makes sense. liberalism's main purpose today is to defend itself past gains -- its past gains from conservative reform. but megativity on the right, to my mind, makes no sense at all. the left has created this false narrative that liberals are for things, and conservatives are against things. when we concede this narrative even just implicitly, we concede the debate before that debate even begins. and yet too many of us, elected conservatives...
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is struggling with a disproportionate responsibility to fund the defense. and here are the we are following the ongoing hunger strike in guantanamo bay prison which is. third month now as the u.s. is sending more medics there as officials say overhaul of all the inmates are refusing for. a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today. live in moscow with your global twenty four hour news america's wars in iraq and afghanistan motivated the worst attack on u.s. soil in more than a decade that's what the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombings has told investigators. also claim that he and his brother acted alone in carrying out the twin blasts more from boston and. as the nineteen year old boston bombing suspect joe hart's her naiads condition improves from serious to fair he's beginning to reveal information to investigators from what we're hearing on the ground according to official search has said that the motive behind the two bombings that took place on monday april fifteenth for the wars you what the u.s. has been fighting in iraq and afgh
is struggling with a disproportionate responsibility to fund the defense. and here are the we are following the ongoing hunger strike in guantanamo bay prison which is. third month now as the u.s. is sending more medics there as officials say overhaul of all the inmates are refusing for. a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today. live in moscow with your global twenty four hour news america's wars in iraq and afghanistan motivated the worst attack on u.s. soil in more than a decade...
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the defense ministry here is saying that they find the north korean statement that was released today to be quite regrettable. a bit of context is if there is any good news in this, this threat from north korea in the context of all the other threats it is quite mild compared to threatening thermo nuclear war. >> it does seem that the talk and rhetoric is starting to be walked back a little bit. so that end, no more talk of a missile launch. it doesn't look like it will happen any time soon. but the south koreans saying it could soon be imminent. where does this all go from here? >> it could be because you don't know. it's impossible to predict what the hermit kingdom is going to do. allies are continuing to behave. they do believe that it could happen. but it does not appear that it will happen. if they look at the movements, it doesn't appear. it does not appear to be imminent. but because we're talking about so sole. >> there has been intense deploemcy in the region. >> venezuela is divided after election results sparked protests and celebrations. officials showed that he narrowly
the defense ministry here is saying that they find the north korean statement that was released today to be quite regrettable. a bit of context is if there is any good news in this, this threat from north korea in the context of all the other threats it is quite mild compared to threatening thermo nuclear war. >> it does seem that the talk and rhetoric is starting to be walked back a little bit. so that end, no more talk of a missile launch. it doesn't look like it will happen any time...
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in australia, defense sectors powered ahead and sensex now trading flat while the country is seen as a big beneficiary to the recent weakness in commodity prices. back to you. >> okay. thanks very much for that. turning our attention to european session as i mentioned just in the last couple minutes here we've turned sharply lower. a sell-off of 0.7 of 1%. decliners outpace advancers by 4 to 1 ratio. the market is scratching around for this particular sell-off. we're down almost three-quarters of 1%. italy down about 0.4 of 1%. presidential selection process will begin tomorrow. here's a look at the bond space to see if we see major moves to echo the concern we've seen across the equity space but not quite. look at spanish and italian debt, they are rallying. here's a look at what's happening across the space. sterling is weaker. we'll hear bank of england minutes out in just a couple minutes time. dollar/yen weakened this morning but not as much as you would expect given the sell-off across commodities. on cnbc.com, london's mayor boris johnson arguing that factoryism is alive and w
in australia, defense sectors powered ahead and sensex now trading flat while the country is seen as a big beneficiary to the recent weakness in commodity prices. back to you. >> okay. thanks very much for that. turning our attention to european session as i mentioned just in the last couple minutes here we've turned sharply lower. a sell-off of 0.7 of 1%. decliners outpace advancers by 4 to 1 ratio. the market is scratching around for this particular sell-off. we're down almost...
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during out of funding shows a lack of commitment to the idea of self-defense. this is a huge signal to terrorists around the world if we will not harm our pilots. i think we have one training facility in new mexico where the pilots are trained. , the pilots complained about the costs and expenses and the time away. we have got training facilities for police man in every state. i do not see any reason we could not cooperate and make it a lot cheaper. i am for saving money. i do not mind saving money. we have all kinds of costs and training facilities for police officers and state troopers. it should not be done in one place. let them learn how to do it and have it done. there's no reason why you can't have local training. i would also take military officers who have had extensive training and i would exempt them from half of the program so they can save time and expenses on getting it done. i think idea of deterrence cannot be measured. you can't measure how important it is to have deterrence. i think a lot of us would argue that having pilots armed is a great d
during out of funding shows a lack of commitment to the idea of self-defense. this is a huge signal to terrorists around the world if we will not harm our pilots. i think we have one training facility in new mexico where the pilots are trained. , the pilots complained about the costs and expenses and the time away. we have got training facilities for police man in every state. i do not see any reason we could not cooperate and make it a lot cheaper. i am for saving money. i do not mind saving...
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can't afford the keystone pipeline dan lashoff climate scientist with the natural natural resources defense council in new york and brad johnson campaign manager with the forecast the facts he's in san francisco thank you all for joining me brad i want to start with you i don't you know want to blame one party to me neither party is doing as much as they including the president is doing as much as they need to on climate change but how trouble is it to you brad that wealth the conservative climate change deniers like the koch's are moving into newspapers medium that's already being used to funnel doubt regarding climate change and what will they do with these do you think. well as you pointed out we in many ways are to have seen what that looks like with the news corp empire throughput murdoch with fox news with the new york post and one of the recent hurdy probably most of that u.k. climate change to now and in the news was from doc own papers there so if you have that and he's so far as we can tell he's primarily doing that for political and economic power but if you took i do you politic
can't afford the keystone pipeline dan lashoff climate scientist with the natural natural resources defense council in new york and brad johnson campaign manager with the forecast the facts he's in san francisco thank you all for joining me brad i want to start with you i don't you know want to blame one party to me neither party is doing as much as they including the president is doing as much as they need to on climate change but how trouble is it to you brad that wealth the conservative...
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and defense personnel based upon legal guidance that has since been repudiated. the most important decision may have been to declare the geneva convention did not apply to al qaeda and taliban captives in afghanistan or guantanamo. the administration never specified what rules would apply instead. the task force believes that u.s. defense intelligence professionals and service members in harm's way need absolutely clear orders on the treatment of detainees, requiring, at a minimum, compliance with common article three of the geneva convention. this was not done. civilian leaders and military commanders have an affirmative responsibility to ensure that their sub ard natures comply with the laws of war. president obama has committed to observe the geneva conventions through an executive order, about the a future president could change it by the stroke of a pen. congress, one of our recommendations, needs to work with the administration to strengthen torture statutes, the war crimes act, and the uniform code of military justice to remove the loopholes that allow tor
and defense personnel based upon legal guidance that has since been repudiated. the most important decision may have been to declare the geneva convention did not apply to al qaeda and taliban captives in afghanistan or guantanamo. the administration never specified what rules would apply instead. the task force believes that u.s. defense intelligence professionals and service members in harm's way need absolutely clear orders on the treatment of detainees, requiring, at a minimum, compliance...
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it will probably outperform the most defensive names. a lot of money is going into defensive names. as interest rays go up, as confidence returns, money will move from that part of the market towards more agretsive aims. but if you go for that long-term perspective, then it's worst being over the growth areas of the markets. >> david, always good to talk with you. thank you so much for the time. we'll talk to you soon. >> thank you. >> teches are lower today after reports from microsoft, ibm and google. google expected to hit 14.2 billion. mark mahaney rates google ads an outperform. he joins us from san francisco this morning. good to have you back. >> good to be here, carl. >> we'll get a lot of information of the names we mentioned. what is the most important? >> the igest issue is the concern that mobile internet usage, which is the mundmental biggest trend is the stocks traded up as cpcs improve. if they improve this quarter, the stocks should trade up. that's the key number. >> we were looking at a slew of price target increases a few weeks ago. in the 900s. a lot of people be
it will probably outperform the most defensive names. a lot of money is going into defensive names. as interest rays go up, as confidence returns, money will move from that part of the market towards more agretsive aims. but if you go for that long-term perspective, then it's worst being over the growth areas of the markets. >> david, always good to talk with you. thank you so much for the time. we'll talk to you soon. >> thank you. >> teches are lower today after reports from...
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consumer staples are again, a defensive day by and large. the big question i got early this morning is what the heck happened in germany? i don't have an answer for you, and some people are calling it a mini flash crash. the dax dropped 180 points in like, eight minutes right after the open and i don't have an explanation and there is a series floating around about fat figure trades and it was very unusual to see that. germany is now down eight in a row and we are are down 1.7% in germany. france was down 1.5% and there were many knock-on effects as a result of this and that's all i can tell you about it. carl, i think you were mentioning these ping-pong markets and that's the other big topic overnight. so you are down 234 on monday and you're up 160 on tuesday. you are down 103 on wednesday here and it's very tough for active traders to take positions. you get a lot of complaints about this stuff. you get stripped out every day depending on which side you're buying protection on, going long or going short and it's hard to take positions and
consumer staples are again, a defensive day by and large. the big question i got early this morning is what the heck happened in germany? i don't have an answer for you, and some people are calling it a mini flash crash. the dax dropped 180 points in like, eight minutes right after the open and i don't have an explanation and there is a series floating around about fat figure trades and it was very unusual to see that. germany is now down eight in a row and we are are down 1.7% in germany....
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look at this way, corzine's defense he put on a trade on italian spanish bonds. we point out that the trade turned out to be very profitable. people got worried about the trade in the market and they pulled out their money from, they pulled out their lines of credit. every brokerage firm needs lines of credit to survive, from mf global. the ensuing madness where mf global, maybe didn't have enough staff on board, caused them, it caused money, customer money to be somehow comingled with the firm money. it is hard to prove, that a, that trade was done with malice. which it wasn't. it turned out to be right ultimately. b, that he really was directing people to misuse customer money. it is, when you break it down, i'm telling you, i'm no fan of jon corzine politically. he is a very nice man personally, this is a hard case to bring. now i'm not saying they are not going to bring it. for all i know they have charges tomorrow. i haven't seen them and i haven't heard of it, but i will tell you he will litigate this back and he could win. this is hard, when you start brea
look at this way, corzine's defense he put on a trade on italian spanish bonds. we point out that the trade turned out to be very profitable. people got worried about the trade in the market and they pulled out their money from, they pulled out their lines of credit. every brokerage firm needs lines of credit to survive, from mf global. the ensuing madness where mf global, maybe didn't have enough staff on board, caused them, it caused money, customer money to be somehow comingled with the firm...
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about or cars beyond that, they were taking up the defensive position and behind the back left bumper and pistol drawn and down on his knee and then -- the officer is going to have to move. i figured that was going to be the case. the other officers had out their shotguns as well as others had ar 15s and had them up and did not have the necessary defense positions because they were still moving forward trying to assess the situation. you were jogging a throng point where they were taking in what's going on. i would say about seven or prove officers spun around and saw that the running of cameras and reporters was coming. they pushed it back because they appeared it was a threatening situation. they had their weapon pull and must be something threatening. they asked us to back off and i stopped. just like the officer following his model. another officer came and said you will have to go back and move back. then they asked us to take a position where they had to lay down. i'm not sure why that was. i am looking at two snipers who took positions. they are not aiming rifles at this point.
about or cars beyond that, they were taking up the defensive position and behind the back left bumper and pistol drawn and down on his knee and then -- the officer is going to have to move. i figured that was going to be the case. the other officers had out their shotguns as well as others had ar 15s and had them up and did not have the necessary defense positions because they were still moving forward trying to assess the situation. you were jogging a throng point where they were taking in...